[UPDATE 4:05 p.m.] Vehicle on Fire in the Balloon Tract; Flames Reportedly Spreading to Surrounding Area

At approximately 11:45 a.m., emergency dispatch sent firefighters to a vehicle with widespread flames moving into the surrounding vegetation, according to traffic on the scanner. Firefighters are now making access to the Balloon Tract in Eureka to try and stop the spread.

UPDATE 11:58 a.m.: Fire is controlled, according to traffic over the scanner.

UPDATE 3 p.m.: Photo provided by a reader.

Fire engine and burning vehicle in the Balloon Track. [Photo provided by Robert Tuel]

It’s the area along the waterfront roughly from the big lumberyard over to about “A” St in Eureka. It used to have old train engines parked on it. The site that Arkley perioducally floats development plans for.